Need help repairing and setting up this old computer.

audioguru2

Apr 6, 2004
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Hi Dazza,
I installed Win98 1st edition on my 486. First I had to replace its Bios that limited its hard drive to about only 560MB, then installed a 2G hard drive. Win98 1st ed used nearly 1G of space. :eek:
When I had AOL dial-up, I found lots of tricks to fool its install program that my 486 was a Pentium, then it worked fine. When I got high-speed cable, I tricked Microsoft too so that I was able to load IE6, which also worked fine. ;D

 

Dazza

Jun 21, 2004
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Hi audioguru,

1G to install Win98 :eek:, Ante suggested that you would need 200MB? my hard drive is only 161MB, I was hoping I would get away with a custom install, opting the things that I didn't need then once installed, use something like 98lite to get rid of anything else I don't need.

I can't even try to install it

 
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